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LARAMIE COUNTY DISTICT COURT JUDGE TOM CAMPBELL HEARD NEARLY TWO HOURS OF ARGUMENTS IN A LAWSUIT FILED BY STATE SCHOOLS SUPERINTENDENT CINDY HILL. If all goes to plan, privately funded snowplows will be carving a path into Yellowstone through the East Entrance on May 3.

Wyoming residents can start dreaming about hitting the big one. Gov. Matt Mead has signed into law a bill allowing the state to create a lottery or join a multi-state lottery, such as Powerball. A Utah man who pleaded guilty to holding up banks in four states has been sentenced.

CASPER CITY COUNCIL WILL ATTEMPT TO AMEND THE CITY’S CONTROVERSIAL PUBLIC INDOOR SMOKING BAN. Gov. Matt Mead is urging communities in northwest Wyoming to raise money to clear roads inside Yellowstone National Park of snow.

CASPER POLICE HAVE NOW CONFIRMED THAT THE BODY OF 36-YEAR-OLD BOBBIE STRINGHAM HAS BEEN RECOVERED FROM THE NORTH PLATTE RIVER. Average retail gasoline prices in Wyoming continue to go up for another week, just under 3 cents a gallon. That according to Gasbuddy's 494 gas outlets throughout the state.

CITY OFFICIALS SAY CASPER CITY COUNCIL IS CONSIDERING AMENDING SECTIONS OF THE CITY’S CONTROVERSIAL PUBLIC INDOOR SMOKING BAN. The University of Wyoming is reporting a 34-student increase in enrollment for the spring semester compared to last year.

AT LEAST ONE PERSON IS HOSPITALIZED AFTER DRIVING OVER AN EMBANKMENT AND INTO THE NORTH PLATTE RIVER. CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY ECONOMIST ERNIE GOSS SAYS THAT HIS LATEST SURVEY OF PURCHASING MANAGERS IN THE MOUNTAIN STATES REGION OF WYOMING, UTAH AND COLORADO SHOWS THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK FOR THE TRI-STATE REGION IS CONSIDERABLY BETTER THAN THE NATIONAL OUTLOOK..

Searchers have found a missing plane and the body of its pilot on a mountainside in south-central Wyoming. Carbon County Sheriff Jerry Colson identified the pilot as 63-year-old Gordon Davis, who owned an aviation company in Tehachapi, (teh-HACH'-uh-pee) Calif. The plane was headed for Laramie when it was reported missing Sunday afternoon. THE WYOMING LEGISLATURE WILL DIRECT STATE AGENCIES TO PREPARE FOR A RANGE OF BUDGET CUTS DESPITE GOV. MATT MEAD'S RECENT VETO OF A SIMILAR LINE ITEM IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK SUPERINTENDENT DAN WENK SAYS SEQUESTRATION MEANS A CUT OF $1.75 MILLION TO THE PARK'S $35 MILLION DOLLAR BUDGET FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE FISCAL YEAR. An air and ground search is underway for a missing plane bound for Laramie. According to the FAA, the Cessna 172 was enroute from Meeker, Colorado to Laramie, but the aircraft never arrived.

THE RECENTLY CONCLUDED LEGISLATIVE SESSION WAS NOT ALL THAT WORKER FRIENDLY, ACCORDING TO DAN NEAL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE EQUALITY STATE POLICY CENTER. The Park County sheriff's office has identified the three members of a family who were fatally shot in a home in the northwestern Wyoming town of Clark.

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